METHOD OF GRINDING CRYSTAL BALLS AND OTHER HARD STONE OBJECTS IN GERMANY AND FRANCE 219 JAPANESE METHOD OF CHIPPING, GRINDING AND POLISHING ROCK-CRYSTAL BALLS 219 ROCK-CRYSTAL SPHERE WITH THREE-FIGURE MOUNTING 221 “PHANTOM CRYSTAL” OF QUARTZ (ROCK-CRYSTAL) 224 ROCK-CRYSTAL BALLS 224 AMBER HEART-SHAPED AMULET 228 AN INSCRIBED SCARAB OF THE TYPE KNOWN AS A HEART-SCARAB 228 BABYLONIAN AXE HEAD 233 MANI MÁLÁ, OR CHAIN OF GEMS 242 SCULPTURED JADE MOUNTAIN WEIGHING 640 LBS 245 VOTIVE ADZE OF JADEITE FROM MEXICO 249 STATUE OF A MAORI WARRIOR, BY SIGURD NEANDROSS 254 JADEITE CELTS 264 STAUROLITE CRYSTALS (FAIRY STONES) 271 FRONTISPIECE OF THE “VESTITUS SACERDOTUM HEBRÆORUM,” OF JOHANN BRAUN, AMSTERDAM, 1680 275 SILVER CROSS WITH QUARTZ CAT’S-EYE 286 SPECIMENS OF CHIASTOLITE (LAPIS CRUCIFER) 286 FACSIMILE OF THE BETROTHAL RING OF THE VIRGIN IN THE CATHEDRAL OF PERUGIA 317 MOSS AGATES 330 THE FIGURES OF THE PLANETS WITH THEIR SIGNIFICANT STONES 332 THE ZODIACAL STONES WITH THEIR SIGNS 343 NECKLACES (FIRST CENTURY, A.D., AND ANCIENT PERSIAN) 346 STATUETTE KNOWN AS THAT OF SAINTE FOY, IN THE ABBEY-CHURCH AT CONQUES, DEPT. AVEYRON, FRANCE 356 INSCRIPTION ON A SMALL PIECE OF LIMESTONE, IN CURSIVE EGYPTIAN WRITING—AN ANCIENT PRESCRIPTION 368 NECKLACES—(1) CARNELIAN BEADS; (2) ONYX BEADS 370 FACSIMILE PAGE OF ITALIAN VELLUM MANUSCRIPT TREATISE OF THE VIRTUES OF GEMS 374 INITIALS FROM THE LAPIDARIO DE ALFONSO X 377 LINE CUTS IN TEXT TITLE PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE POETICAL TREATISE ON PRECIOUS STONES BY MARBODUS, BISHOP OF RENNES, PRINTED IN FRIBURG, 1531 15 TITLE PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE GREEK TREATISE BY ST. EPIPHANIUS ON THE GEMS OF THE BREASTPLATE, WITH A LATIN VERSION 16 TITLE PAGE OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST TREATISES ON PRECIOUS STONES PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND 17